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1920s Romantic Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 247 movies or TV shows/series

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The Jazz Singer(1927)

1h 29min | Drama, Music
3.2/5 (with 81 votes)

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Directed by Alan Crosland - With Warner Oland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Richard Tucker, Yossele Rosenblatt, Richard Tucker, ...

Easy Virtue(1928)

1h 25min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 336 votes)

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate(1923)

1h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

The Man Who Laughs(1928)

1h 50min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 78 votes)

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.

The Wind(1928)

3.7/5 (with 42 votes)

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors, including neighbor Lige Hightower, leave Letty increasingly disturbed, resulting in tragedy.

7th Heaven(1927)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

Flesh and the Devil(1926)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

The Last Command(1928)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 28min | Drama, History, Romance / Love, War
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Way Down East(1920)

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

The Docks of New York(1928)

1h 16min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Across to Singapore(1928)

1h 25min | Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

While Joel and his older ship's captain brother Mark are at sea, the latter is abandoned in Singapore by devious ship's mate Finch who, upon their return, convinces the townspeople that Joel abandoned his brother. Joel, determined to not only find Mark but to see justice done, returns the ship to Singapore.

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Don Juan(1926)

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

If there was one thing that Don Juan de Marana learned from his father Don Jose, it was that women gave you three things - life, disillusionment and death. In his father's case it was his wife, Donna Isobel, and Donna Elvira who supplied the latter. Don Juan settled in Rome after attending the University of Pisa. Rome was run by the tyrannical Borgia family consisting of Caesar, Lucrezia and the Count Donati. Juan has his way with and was pursued by many women, but it is the one that he could not have that haunts him. It will be for her that he suffers the wrath of Borgia for ignoring Lucrezia and then killing Count Donati in a duel. For Adriana, they will both be condemned to death in the prison on the river Tigre.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse(1921)

2h 12min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.

Directed by Rex Ingram - With Josef Swickard, Bridgetta Clark, Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Beery, Alice Terry, Alan Hale, ...

The Wedding March(1928)

1h 53min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

The Sheik(1921)

3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...

The Winning of Barbara Worth(1926)

3.3/5 (with 9 votes)

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.

Directed by Henry King - With Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane, Paul McAllister, Clyde Cook, ...

The Magician(1926)

1h 23min | Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

Blood and Sand(1922)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Doña Sol and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.

Love(1928)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his mistress.

The Merry Widow(1926)

2h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.

Scaramouche(1923)

2h 4min | Drama, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.

The Midnight Express(1924)

56min | Action, Adventure
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Wastrel son of a railroad magnate, Jack's father becomes frustrated with his son's wild ways. To prove himself, Jack goes to work in the railroad yard as a laborer. An escaped convict, Silent Bill Brachley, steals Jack's car, and the chase leads to a meeting between Jack, the engineer of the Midnight Express, and the engineer's pretty daughter, Mary. As he is led back to jail, Brachley swears revenge.

Mademoiselle from Armentieres(1926)

A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh(1928)

1h 13min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.

The Conquering Power(1921)

1h 29min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Young playboy Charles Grandet is sent to live with his miserly uncle after his father loses his fortune. He and his cousin Eugenie fall in love, but his uncle sends him away and tries to arrange a marriage more to his liking (and profit!). Will true love triumph?

Cytherea(1924)

1h 20min | Drama

Lee Randon, weary of business duties and a conventional home life, acquires a long-lost sense of excitement and romance with young flapper Claire Morris. When he meets her married aunt, Savina Grove, she appears to be the woman he imagines whenever he gazes at a doll he has christened Cytherea, goddess of love -----Cytherea features two dream sequences filmed in an early version of the Technicolor color film process.

Camille(1921)

1h 10min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.

Beyond the Rocks(1922)

3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.

Torrent(1926)

1h 27min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.

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